Dorothea Prühl

Dorothea Prühl was born in Breslau (Wrocław), Poland. She relocated amidst the upheaval of war and grew up in a village in Brandenburg, Germany. Prühl then moved to Halle to study at the progressive Burg Giebichenstein, where she completed craft training and studied under metal sculptor Karl Müller. Though she found the school “complicated and contradictory… [and] increasingly superimposed with the doctrine of the Socialist Union Party,” [1] she received a good foundational education upon which she could build her professional career. Prühl began working at a commercial jewelry firm called VEB Gablona, where she found inspiration in the range of materials the company used to make jewelry. She left... more.

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